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Abstract Truth

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to
die for it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Action and Thought

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Action over Prayer

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Action Over Promises

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of
never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the
ability to carry them out.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Action, Not the Fruit

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It
may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean
you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there
will be no result.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Adaptability

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Admitting Error Makes me Great

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have
humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

An Eye for an Eye

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

An Odd View of Harm

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Anger and Intolerance

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Anger and Pride

Anger is the enemy of Ahimsa [non-violence] and pride is a monster swallows it up.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Animal Cruelty

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature,
the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Apassionate Vows

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind
purified and composed and with God as witness.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Attack the System, Not the Man

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting
and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush and are children of one and the same Creator and
as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers
and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

Attributes of Love

Banning Books

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Be The Change

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Be Here Now

I do not want to forsee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control
over the moment following.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Become The Change

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Becoming Great

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Befriending Enemies

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your
enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Birth, Death, Same Difference

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as
little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

A Boast By Someone Never Tortured

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Bravery and Love

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Breach of Promise

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Breach of Promise

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one’s debt.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Brooding on Evil

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Carrots and Sticks

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on
love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Ceaseless Growth is Possible in Terms of Spirituality

Human society is a ceaseless growth and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Christians Are So Unlike Christ

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Combating Slavery

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture me,
break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore,
it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Confession

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I
feel stronger for the confession.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Confusing God and Non-violence Again

The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the shield of the non-violent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Court of Conscience

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other
courts.

I discovered that screaming at people to be brave has the opposite effect.

Cunning Is No Virtue

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient and have therefore always
discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Danger of Pampering

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak and where there is
no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Daring to Die Unarmed

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition of Common Sense

Commonsense is a realised sense of proportion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition Of Democracy

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest…
No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak… Western democracy, as it
functions today, is diluted fascism… True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It
has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition of God

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God.
They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition of a Good Man

The good man is the friend of all living things.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition of Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Definition of War Criminal

What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity and, therefore, were not all those
who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers
alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia
have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red — not merely Germany and Japan.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Delusions of Grandeur

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is
possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after
that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Desire To Serve

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of
doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and it will make not only for
our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Discipline

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring and that
discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the
school of adversity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Discontent Leads to Progress

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Doing the Humble Shtick

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in
the Potter’s divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self
in me.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Doubt!

It is unwise to be too sure one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken
and the wisest might err.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Dying Play On Words

Violent men have not be known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Effective proselytising

We do not need to proselytize either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Effects of Non-Cooperation Persist

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers
like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Effort is More Satisfying Than Attainment

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Enduring Creeds

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are
such for which people live for ages and ages.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Equating God and Love

Where love is, there God is also.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Equating Life ad Love

Where there is love there is life.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Even More Wishful Thinking About God

We are merely instruments of the Almighty’s will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what
acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we
can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Even the Weak Deserve Respect

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman,
however, weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty and that this defence prevails though
the world be against the individual resister.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Exceptions

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Faith is Subservient to Reason

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Foolish Consistency

Constant development is the law of life and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear
consistent drives himself into a false position.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Forget Anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Forget the Outcome

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident
that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every
one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do
our own part well.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Forgiveness Requires Strength

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Forgiving vs Forgetting

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that much be
loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Freedom To be Wrong

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Fretting Over Outcomes

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the
obstacles before him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Friendship Permits Honest Differences

Friendship that insists on agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever
sustain the weight of honest differences, however, sharp they be.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Fuck Diplomacy!

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of
is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi the Capitalist

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be
needed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi the Crank

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of
their conviction.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi Has Not Found God

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice
the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded by very life, I hope I may be
prepared to give it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi the Hawk

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi the Masochist

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi as Mead

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of
history.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi the Multiculturalist

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the
lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to
live in other people’s houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi as Poet

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi as Tinkerbell

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear
enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhian Faith

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith
transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith
shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Biggest Lie

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent
instrument of action.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Delusion

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Delusion

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Lame God Argument

It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be
said of Him with impunity. He looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but
it purifying, compelling punishment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Paradox: Religions Must Be Reasonable

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction
of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be
the test of merit.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Religion

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising
Him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Species Chauvinism

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent
and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions
and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser
nature can show himself lower than the brute.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi’s Two-Faced Trust

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be
like Timon, a hater of my species.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gender Equality

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the
minutest details in the activities of man and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God as Bread

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God Exists, I am Utterly Certain, Though I have no Clue Why

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is
self-sustained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God Gibberish

Of all the animal creations of God, man is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his
Maker. Man’s aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his
material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God Loves Screwing Up Your Plans

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the
ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man’s plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious
and often better than anticipated.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God Never Overtaxes Anyone. Speak For Yourself, Mohandas

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go
through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God On Our Side

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding
morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God Wool

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be
beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in
all, is the only way to find oneself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

God, God, God. Rah, Rah, Rah

I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that
change a living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That
informing power or spirit is God. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He
alone is.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gods Wants Sacrifices of Only Blemish-free Cattle

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest
and the most spotless.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gold Fetters

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not
in the metal.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Good From Violence Is Temporary

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is
permanent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Harmony of Thought Word and Deed

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and
everything will be well.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed
disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised and that is
why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Health Beats Wealth

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Honest Disagreement Is OK

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Honoured by Humiliation

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow
beings.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

How Love Punishes

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

How Nations are Born

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Hyperbole on Patience

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of
the blackest storm.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

I Used to be Horny, But Now I Am Proud I Am Too Old

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so
was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the
humblest of us being happy.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Imitation

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Importance of Masochism

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is
making sacred. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for
his sacrifice.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Importance of Now

The future depends on what you do today.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

In Praise of Deluding Oneself

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

In Praise of Self Delusion

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with
which nothing can be compared.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Industrialism Strips Like Locusts

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world
in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Inner Peace

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside
circumstances.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Inner Voice

Don’t listen to friends when the Friend inside you says Do this.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

However, this advice does not apply to George W. Bush.

Insistence on Truth

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be
tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The traditional view is that if you opponent lies, it is fine for you to lie too.

Intention

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts, but by his intentions. For God alone
reads our hearts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

On the other paw, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Interdependent Man

It is man’s social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be
independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of
everybody else and be self-contained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

International Affairs Do Not Recognise Love

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government
stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Intolerance Is Violence

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Invisible Peeping-Tom the Sky

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God —
He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Irrelevance of the Majority

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

It Starts With An Individual

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose
heart and hope.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Joy of Serving

Service that is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures as
possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Justice of Love

Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Justifying Violence

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover
impotence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Law of Love

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long
ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis
of society was violence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Laws of Quenching

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not
for saints only but for all.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Life Expectancy Paradox

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Literary Education

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Love vs Hate

Hatred ever kills, Love never dies, such is the vast difference between the two. What is ordained by love is
retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality, for it increases hatred.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Loving the Meanest Creation

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of
creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life. That is why
my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation and
yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion
means.

Lust Deserves Species Extinction

I would rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of
God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Lust is Very Wicked

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

As A Man Thinketh…

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Manliness Is Doing What Is Right

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing
consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Martyrdom

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Masochist Creed

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Material Comforts

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral
growth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Melting Hearts Through Suffering

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the
key to Satyagraha.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

I think this suffering bravely borne works for a different reason that
Gandhi thinks it does. It is a form of pranging. You are behaving in a way your opponent
has never seen a human behave before. It freaks him out. He does not know how to deal with you. He just wants to
get away. You are inducing not compassion but discomfort. Attenborough showed this, quite clearly I thought, in his
film.

The Minority of One

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Moral Authority

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold onto it. It comes without seeking and is retained
without effort.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Moral Test

Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest most helpless destitute person you have seen and
ask yourself, Is what I am about to do going to help him?

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Moral Wool

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

More Spiritual Blather

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body
without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Motive For Violence is Irrelevant

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Motives vs Means

However, much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent
methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Multiplying Wants

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his
daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

My Yearning

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought,
word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of
it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

National Subjugation

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other
nations, however, noble and great the latter my be.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Nevah Surrendah

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head than to crawl on one’s belly, in order
to be able to save one’s head.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

No

A No uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a Yes merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

No Cause Justifies Killing

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

No Patronage Please

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to
restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Poet Sarojini Naidu joked, it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhi living in poverty.

No Religion has an Exclusive

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

No Watertight Compartments

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political
and religious. All act and react upon one another.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-co-operation As Duty

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-Cooperation

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done
by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-cooperation with Evil

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-cooperation with Measures

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but
against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in
love.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-Deviation

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-violence and Humility

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages.
If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-violence Gobbledegook

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for
sustenance upon intense individual effort.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-Violence is Not a Garment

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an
inseparable part of our being.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-Violence is Sold with Emotion

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Non-violent Goal

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence
as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Nothing Good Comes of Violence and Lies

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my
belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Oneness of God

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Yet Gandhi was a follower of Hinduism, a polytheistic religion. He sounds here like a Muslim.

Opinions Need Not Separate

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Optimism

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

People Are Attached To Their Religions

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man, even if it stands low in
the scales of philosophical comparison.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Perfection

A principle is the expression of perfection and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we
devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Pomposity

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But
I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Practice vs Preaching

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Prayer is Longing Not Supplication

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness… It is
better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Principles Are By Definition Good

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Priorities

Action expresses priorities.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Public Opinion

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Public Opinion

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Pursuit of Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Quality Over Quantity

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Reaching is the Glory, not Succeeding

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Readiness to Die

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing
him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi has a romantic notion about dying for a cause. If you are dead, you cannot contribute
anything further. Rarely will your death itself compensate for that.

Recipe For Humaneness

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of
one’s conduct and a little receptiveness.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religion and Politics

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religion and Truth

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in
this world but Truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religion Must Be Practical

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religion Is Not About Reason

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own
religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

However, he elsewhere asserts religion must be reasonable.

Religion is Personal

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one
else’s.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religion is Subservient to Reason

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal
assent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Religious Doctrine Must be Reasonable

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Remaking Ourselves

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of
the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Repentance

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the
right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Respect Principles of Opponents

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours.
Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Rewards of Peace

Peace is its own reward.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Rule of Law

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments,
working for their fulfillment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Sacrificing the Future for the Present

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Second Amendment Fanatic

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of
arms as the blackest.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Secret of My Success

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or
woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Self-Respect

Self-respect knows no considerations.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Self-Sustaining Creeds

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from
within.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Selfless Service

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Seven Blunders

The destructive Seven Blunders of the World that cause violence:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.

Knowledge without character.

Commerce without morality.

Science without humanity.

Religion without sacrifice.

Politics without principle.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

I have always thought that having wealth flow to you without doing something of equal value in
return was a form of theft. Most Americans hold a quite different view. They believe that people like Romney to
whom money flows effortlessly like a supermagnet, who provide no goods or services to those who give them the
money, who then spend that wealth as wastefully and conspicuously as possible, represent the very goal of
existence. Nearly everyone who gets rich does it by short-changing, or even actively harming, their fellows, hardly
admirable behaviour.

Showing I Care

I care so deeply about this matter that I’m willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison
cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern
and how civil I am in going about this, you’re bound to change your mind about
me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Significance Enigma

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Sources of Wisdom

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The
golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Speed of Life

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Spirit of Democracy

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires a change of
heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Spiritual Force Mojo

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if
we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered
that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the
spirit is everlasting.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Start With the Kids

If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to
begin with the children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Still Small Voice

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Striving

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s
hands.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Sufficiency For Need, But Not For Greed

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Suspicion of Motives

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Testing Faith

Indeed one’s faith in one’s plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the
blackest.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Tolerance is a Prerequisite for Democracy

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want
of faith in one’s cause.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Treating Self Differently From Others

I am a Puritan myself, but I am catholic toward others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Truth Always Wins

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it,
always.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

This is Gandhi’s other greatest insight. The good has to win
in the long run, simply because it is more pleasant and eventually most people will choose it simply because it
feels better.

Truth an Violence

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa
[violence].

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Truth is Harmless

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Truth is not Popularity

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody
sees it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Truth is Self-Evident

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines
clear.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Two Virtues

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and non-violence. I lay no claim to super-human powers. I want none. I
wear the same corruptible flesh that the weakest of my fellow beings wears and am therefore as liable to err as
any. My services have many limitations, but God has up to now blessed them in spite of the imperfections.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

The Ultimate Tyrant

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Unconditional Assistance

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation which
needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated
cement which does not bind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Unity Twaddle

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to
mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Universe is Orderly

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that
exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Value of Silence

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light and what is elusive and deceptive resolves
itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Victory By Violence in Momentary

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

This is perhaps Gandhi’s most profound insight. If you use violence to make someone behave
the way you want, they will fight back at the very next opportunity. If you use non-violent persuasion, they will
stay persuaded.

Violent Freedom

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Vivisection

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of
no consequence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Voice of Conscience

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even
though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the
state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law
of our being.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

We All Love Evil

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too
well to give it up.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Weak Morality

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted
in the purity of our hearts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Western Civilisation

What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

What Stopped Gandhi’s Suicide

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Why A Life In Politics?

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from
which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Will Is More Important Than Capacity

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Wishful Thinking on Religious Unity

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Wordless Prayer

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Worry

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry
about anything whatsoever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Worshipping the Imaginary

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the
creator.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

You Are Right About Your Limits

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable
of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the
beginning.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Your Own Light

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

~ Mahatma Gandhi(born:1869-10-02 died:1948-01-30 at age:78)

Gandhi Fed on Superstition

The sad thing about Gandhi is that most of his influence came from ignorant people superimposing their religious
superstitions on him.